99 QUICK AND FASCINATING FACTS ABOUT THE BODY

[Music] the human body is an incredibly intricate and complex system did you know that there are more than 300 million capillaries in your lungs if you stretch them from end to end they will reach the distance that is equal to the width of the us doesn't this sound amazing don't forget to subscribe because today we're sharing 99 incredible facts about your body that will amuse you the only part of your body that has no blood supply is the cornea of your eye it receives oxygen directly from the air your brain has a memory capacity which is the equivalent of more than four terabytes on a hard drive it seems computers will never match the human mind a newborn child can breathe and swallow at the same time for up to seven months your skull is made up of 29 different bones nerve impulses sent from your brain move at a speed of 274 kilometers per hour this is the speed of a high speed train a single human brain generates more electrical impulses in a day than all the telephones of the world combined i can't imagine how many impulses it generates in a year the average human body contains enough sulfur to kill all the fleas on the average dog enough carbon to make 900 pencils enough potassium to fire a toy cannon enough fat to make seven bars of soap and enough water to fill a 50 liter barrel a 50 liter barrel the human heart pumps 182 million liters of blood during the average lifetime 50 000 cells in your body died and were replaced by new ones while you were reading this sentence the human embryo acquires fingerprints within three months of conception women's heart beat faster than men's a man named charles osborne continuously hiccuped for 68 years scientists who've studied his case have estimated that he hiccup 24 000 times per day or some 595 million 680 thousand times over his lifetime right-handed people live on average nine years longer than left-handed people about two-thirds of people tilt their head to the right when kissing what about you the average person forgets ninety percent of their dreams it's too bad because we spend about one third of our life sleeping the total length of all the blood vessels in your body is about 100 000 kilometers on average a person's respiration rate is one-third higher in spring than an autumn by the end of a person's life they can recall on average around 150 trillion pieces of information we lose 80 percent of our body heat from the head cold out you need to wear a hat when you blush your stomach also turns red i wish i could see it a feeling of thirst occurs when water loss is equal to one percent of your body weight the loss of more than five percent can cause fainting and more than 10 can cause death from dehydration this is why you should drink at least 2 liters of water a day [Music] at least 700 enzymes are active in the human body human beings are the only living things which sleep on their backs the average four-year-old child asks 450 questions a day i guess most of them start with why not only human beings but also koalas have unique fingerprints [Music] only one percent of the bacteria can result in the human body becoming ill everyone alive on earth could comfortably be placed into a cube with sides 1000 meters long the scientific name for the belly button is the umbilicus teeth are only part of the human body which cannot heal themselves on average a person needs seven minutes to fall asleep right-handed people chew most of their food on the right side of their mouth whereas left-handed people do so on the left only seven percent of people are left-handed [Music] the fragrance of apples and bananas can help a person to lose weight if allowed to grow for their whole lifetime the length of someone's hair would be about 725 kilometers just wow out of all the people who can move their ears only one third of them are able to move just one ear during their lifetime a person will on average accidentally swallow eight small spiders the total weight of the bacteria in your body is two kilograms ninety-nine percent of the calcium contained in your body is in one's teeth your lips are hundreds of times more sensitive than the tips of your fingers a kiss increases your pulse to 100 beats per minute or more [Music] the total strength of masticatory muscles on one side of your jaw is equal to 195 kilograms you pass on 278 different types of bacteria to another person when you kiss them fortunately 95 of them are not harmful parthenophobia is a fear of virgins if you collected all the iron contained in the human body you would get just a small cog big enough only for use in your watch there are more than 100 different viruses which cause a cold if you kiss another person for a certain amount of time this is much more effective in terms of hygiene than using chewing gum as it normalizes the level of acidity in your oral cavities [Music] you can lose 150 calories per day if you bang your head against the wall well we don't recommend doing this this is just an interesting fact human beings are the only animals which can draw straight lines human skin is completely replaced about 1 000 times during a person's lifetime a person who smokes a pack of cigarettes a day is doing the equivalent of drinking half a cup of tar a year women blink about two times less often than men [Music] the structure of your body contains only four minerals appetite aragonite calcite and cristobalite a passionate kiss causes the same chemical reaction in the brain that skydiving and firing a gun do men are officially classified as dwarves if their height is below 1.3 meters whereas for women the measure is 1.2 meters fingernails grow at about four times faster than your toenails [Music] people with blue eyes are more sensitive to pain than others nerve impulses in the human body move at about 90 meters per second 100 000 chemical reactions occur in the human brain every second everyone has dimples on their lower back but on some people they are more pronounced than on others they appear where the pelvis joins with the sacrum so their appearance makes sense [Music] if one identical twin lacks a certain tooth the other twin will not have that tooth either the surface area of your lungs is approximately equal to the area of a tennis court during a lifetime we spend about two weeks kissing the facial hair of a blonde haired man grows faster than that of a man with dark hair leukocytes in the human body live for two to four days and erythrocytes for three to four months the strongest muscle in your body is your tongue the human heart is approximately equal to the size of that of a person's fist an adult's heart weighs 220 to 260 grams at birth there are 14 billion cells in the human brain this number does not increase throughout a person's lifetime after 25 years the number of cells falls by 100 000 every day about 70 cells die in the minute it takes you to read a page in a book after 40 years the decline of the brain accelerates sharply and after 50 years neurons that is nerve cells shrink in the brain get smaller at birth a child's body is made up of around 300 bones but an adult has just 206. during a person's lifetime the small intestine is about 2.5 meters after they die the muscle and the walls of their intestine relax and its length increases to 6 meters your right lung can take in more air than your left an adult person performs around 23 000 inhalations in exhalations a day the smallest cells in a man's body are sperm cells there are about forty thousand bacteria in your mouth it's time to kiss someone [Music] each of us has around two thousand taste buds the human eye can distinguish 10 million different colors the chemical compound in the body which causes feelings of ecstasy phenylethylamine is also contained in chocolate your heart pumps blood at such pressure that it would be able to raise blood up to the fourth floor of a building a person burns more calories when they sleep than when they watch tv children grow faster in the spring just like grass every year more than 2 million left-handed people die because of mistakes they make when using machines designed for right-handed people it turns out that one man in every 300 is capable of satisfying themselves orally [Music] you use 17 muscles when you smile and 43 when you frown by the age of 60 most people lose half of their taste buds the rate at which a person's hair grows doubles during an airplane flight one percent of people can see infrared light and one percent can see ultraviolet radiation if you were locked in a completely sealed room you would not die due to a lack of air but from carbon dioxide poisoning statistically only one person out of two billion reaches the age of 116 years old on average a person says 4 800 words in 24 hours the retinas inside the eye cover about 650 square millimeters and contain 137 million light-sensitive cells 130 million are for black and white vision and 7 million are for helping you see in color our eyes remain the same size as they were at birth but our nose and ears never stop growing in the morning you are about eight millimeters taller than in the evening the muscles which help your eyes to focus complete about 100 000 movements a day in order to make your leg muscles do the same amount of movements you would need to walk 80 kilometers a cough is an explosive charge of air which moves at a speed of 60 miles per hour according to german researchers the risk of having a heart attack is higher on monday than on any other day of the week are about five times stronger than steel it is impossible to sneeze with your eyes open ingrown toenails are hereditary a person would die quicker from a total lack of sleep than from hunger death would occur after 10 days without sleep whereas from hunger it would take several weeks the average life expectancy is 2 billion 475 million 576 000 seconds during this time we pronounce on average around 123 million 205 750 words and have sex 4239 times 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Length: 13min 57sec (837 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 25 2017

Reddit Comments

[u/owenboi]

lol I think I have back dimples.